R E V I E W SLUCAS CARPENTER on Miller Williams's Time and the Tilting EarthFRANCESCA CAUCHI on Craig Hovey's Nietzsche and TheologySPENCER DEW on John Capouya's Gorgeous George: The Outrageous Bad-Boy Wrestler Who Created American Pop CultureJOHN PHILLIPS on Adrian Goldsworthy's Caesar: Life of a Colossus

R E V I E W SRICHARD E. AMACHER on Mary Hunter's Mozart’s Opera: A CompanionN. S. BOONE on Li-Young Lee's Behind My EyesELIZABETH DODD on Chris Arthur's Words of the Grey Wind: Family and Epiphany in Ulster and Irish ElegiesTAWNYSHA GREENE on Adrian Blevins's Live from the Homesick JamboreeSUZANNE LINDER on Christina Thompson's Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You AllNICHOLAS O. PAGAN on J. Hillis Miller's For Derrida

R E V I E W SCELIA LISSET ALVAREZ on Jeannine Hall Gailey's She Returns to the Floating WorldLUCAS CARPENTER on Victor Daly's Not Only War: A Story of Two Great ConflictsJAMES P. HAMMERSMITH on Bernd Brunner's Moon: A Brief HistoryBERT HITCHCOCK on William Cobb's The Last Queen of the GypsiesVIRGINIA M. KOUIDIS on Stachy Schiff's Cleopatra: A LifeJEAN M. SNOOK on Edith Grossman's Why Translation MattersSIMON STOW on Robert C. Pirro's The Politics of Tragedy and Democratic Citizenship

E S S A Y SJULIAN HOFFMAN An Accumulation of LightCHRISTOPHER NORRIS Further Thoughts: On the Extended Mind HypothesisMARTIN NOVAL Turning Bears into Chipmunks: The Wild, the Violent, and the Destruction of the Earth

F I C T I O NJENNIFER CRANFILL The Last of the Small Town GirlsTONI GRAHAM Ash

R E V I E W SJAMES P. HAMMERSMITH on Nigel Warburton's A Little History of PhilosophyANTHONY LIMAN on Atsushi Nakajima's The Moon over the MountainTHOMAS PAVEL on Liliana Ursa's A Path to the SeaMARY ANN RYGIEL on David Sehat's The Myth of American Religious Freedom

E S S A Y SJODY A. ZORGDRAGER In the Wake

F I C T I O NEZRA CARLSEN We Are Vehicles in the EndJESSICA KINNISON Drawbridge

P O E T R YCOLLEEN ABEL The Sleep Suite; The ExpectantRICHARD N. BENTLEY New ChildCIARAN BERRY 4'33"MARK JAY BREWIN, JR. Donation Doctor's VisitROBIN CARSTENSEN StraySHARON CHMIELARZ A Strange FeelingJOEY CONNELLY The Day I Came Out to My ParentsWESTON CUTTER Lives of the Revelers | x≠xJULIE DANHO When the First Father Dies | Cloud Gate, Chicago | For My Daughter on Her First BirthdayJEFFREY GALBRAITH Record of Persons Whose Names Have ChangedGRAHAM HILLARD ElementalSUZANNE MARIE HOPCROFT For Once, Carve a HomeAL MAGINNES Naming the LakesJASON PRIMM A Personal Catalogue of BirdsMATTHEW SIEGEL [My Pills Doze until I Wake Them] | What World Are You in, Mother, when You SleepKAREN VAN DE GRAAF DictationNIC WALKER Standing outside the Caverns of Boerne, Texas

R E V I E W SFRANCESCA CAUCHI on Eric G. Wilson's My Business Is to CreateMELISSA DICKSON on Sarah Kennedy's The Gold ThreadBILL DISKIN on Paola Corso's The Laundress Catches Her BreathPAUL FLEMING on Friederich Hölderlin's Selected PoemsGRAHAM GOOD on Chris Arthur's On the Shoreline of KnowledgeJOHN PHILLIPS on Runar M. Thorsteinsson's Roman Christianity and Roman Stoicism: A Comparative Study of Ancient Morality

R E V I E W SAMANDA BRICKWELL BELLOWS on Jon Smith's Finding Purple America: The South and the Future of American Cultural StudiesEMMA BOLDEN on Julianne Buchsbaum's The Apothecary's HeirN. S. BOONE on Rae Armantrout's Just SayingSARAH KENNEDY on David Madden's London Bridge in Plague and FireDORENE O'BRIEN on Ksenia Rychtycka's Crossing the BorderROBIN SABINO on Emily Clark's The Strange History of the American Quadroon: Free Women of Color in the Revolutionary Atlantic World

* Selected for Best American Essays 2014

Cultural MemoirSpecial issue edited by Patricia Foster

E S S A Y SPATRICIA FOSTER Introduction: The Cultural MemoirBEVERLY BLASINGAME The Train to TrebonJERALD WALKERHow to Make a Slave*INARA VERZEMNIEKS CesvaineKATE BOLTON BONNICI Bloodlines: A Personal History of EpisiotomyCHRISTOPHER MERRILL Damascus as an ExampleWILL JENNINGS Moving in a Time of WarANGELA JORDAN ProphecyHONOR MOORE Cuba MiaMARILYN ABILDSKOV BloomJIM MCKEAN So Much MoreJAY LAMAR Telling SecretsROBIN HEMLEY The Writer across the Table

REVIEWSJOHN WELLS WARREN on Harold Bloom's The Shadow of a Great Rock: A Literary Appreciation of the King James BibleMELISSA DICKSON JACKSON on David Leeming's Medusa in the Mirror of TimeLUCAS CARPENTER on Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism: Southern Literature and National Periodical Culture, 1870-1900